1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



175 



then draw out the wooden punch. Like a 

 '' duck's foot in the mud," the cionical punch 

 will tit tlie inverted cone exactly. Your 

 tool is now ready for making the wire cones 

 as in Fig. 2. 



To make the cone, take a piece of wire 

 cloth 31 inches square. Place this so that its 

 center is just over the center of the hole in 

 the babbitt metal. The punch is now put 

 in the center of the wire cloth, and a couple 

 of light strokes with a hammer drives the 

 wire clotli into the shape seen in Fig. 2, with 

 the exception of the small end, which is 

 closed. With the point of a pencil, crowd 

 the central mesh in the apex until of the size 

 of tlie pencil. 



You observe in Fig. 2, that the corners 

 are spread out. The queen-cell is placed 

 snugly in the cone. The corners are then 

 drawn together, and a short piece of wire 

 twists the ends together as in Fig. 1. The 

 surplus wire should be long enough to hang 

 down between the frames. When the queen 

 hatches she has only to crawl out at the 

 small end of the cone! 



Bees have a mania, sometimes, for tearing 

 down queen-cells, and I have sometimes 

 found it a very difficult matter indeed to get 

 the bees to accept cells at all. If I had had 

 one of these queen-cell protectors, I think I 

 should have succeeded. 



There is another use to which this cage 

 might be put ; that is, introducing fertile 

 queens. The idea came to us quite incident- 

 ally, and we feel pretty sure it will work, al- 

 though never haviiig tried it. The cage as 

 in Fig. 1 would be the one we should use. 

 Put the queen to be introduced into the end 

 of the cage, and then stop it up with a small 

 plug of Good candy. The cage is then to be 

 suspended between the frames. In the pro- 

 cess of time the candy will be eaten out by 

 the bees, and the queen liberated. Our 

 readers will observe that this principle of 

 introducing is the same as in the Klimitz 

 cage, which we have tried, and know will 

 work. 



We can furnish these cages with printed 

 instructions, at the same price as given in 

 Gleanings before ; i. e., 3 cts. each ; 15 cts. 

 for lU, or $1.00 per 100. If wanted by mail, 

 add 3 cts. for 10, or 20 cts. per 100. 



Ernest. 

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MR. THOMAS HORN. 



AT.SO SOMETHING IN REGARD TO THE RESPONSI- 

 BILITY OF EDITORS. 



N response to our editorial of Feb. 1st, 



fi2 persons have reported having sent 



^r Mr. Horn money, amounting to S440.00, 



for which little or no return was ever 



mad^. Among the whole number, only 



two parties iiave claimed that I ought to 



pay back the money sent to Mr. Horn. The 



first one is as follows : 



Mr. Ro(it:—l wrote you last season regarding an 

 unsatisfactory transaction with Thomas Horn. I 

 received no satisfaction from Mr. Horn. 1 have 

 postponed writing to you thus long, in accordance 

 with your request in Gleanings. I have always 

 been dealt with in a straightforward manner by 

 yourself, and I desire to continue such dealing, if 



this matter of Mr. Horn is adjusted satisfactorily. 

 Now, In this matter T consider that any paper (this, 

 too, is o!ily the popular verdict) in which I see an 

 advertisement, is the' first party to a transaction, 

 the advertisers the second; therefore with me I 

 consider Gleanings responsible for ten dollars, 

 sent to Thos. Horn last May, which, to date, has 

 failed to put in an appearance, or value thereof. 

 If you are willing to make the matter right— that 

 is, the principal, I will charge no interest, and will 

 take it out in goods and subscription to Glean- 

 ings, and in future shall compel them (if such 

 parties get an order from me) to take the money 

 from you, with your permission (myself first send- 

 ing it to you). 



I send you the letters received from Mr. Horn. 

 I have sent you a great deal of money, first and 

 last. You spoke in Gleanings of Mr. Horn's ad- 

 vertising the season previously. So be did. I 

 looked it up. Please do so yourself. That adver- 

 tisement was not the catch-penny affair of 1886. 

 In 18.H5, Aug. and Sept., Mr. Horn says, "Look 

 here." In May, 188(5, " Horn pays express charges!" 

 It blossoms out clear across Gleanings, "Pure 

 Italians exclusively," and with "Stop! read and 

 order!" This attracts orders to his pocket, and 

 that, it seems, is the end of the order. Having lost 

 bees quite heavily in the winter of 1885, 1 ordered, 

 relying on your superior facilities for knowing 

 what your advertisers' responsibility amounted to. 

 If I am to lose this money, please take my name off 

 your subscription list, and for numbers sent, Jan. 

 1st and 1.5th, I will pay for them. Please return Mr. 

 Horn's letter, which I send as registei-ed mail- 

 matter. Geo. T. Remington. 



Wilmington, Del., Jan. 24, 1887. 



Friend R., if I pay you back the money 

 you have lost, of course it is my duty to pay 

 the other $430.00 in the same way. Where an 

 editor, by carelessness, or even by being de- 

 ceived, permits a deliberate swindler to 

 gain access to his columns, I can pretty 

 nearly if not quite agiee with you ; but if 

 we are to be responsible in all cases where 

 losses come, bow are we to know before- 

 hand which one of the brethren is likely to 

 fail in business, and which one is not? 

 Our facilities for getting at the responsibili- 

 ty of our advertisers are certainly superior 

 to those of our readers. You" say Mr. 

 Horn's advertisement, to the effect that he 

 would pay express charges, etc., bears upon 

 the face of it the appearance of ■ a catch- 

 penny affair. So it did seem; but now- 

 adays, good substantial men often make 

 pretty liberal offers to secure custom. We 

 made careful inquiries in regard to Mr. 

 Horn ; and not only his postmaster, but the 

 officers of the bank in the town where he 

 resides, pronounced him all right. He had 

 also been doing business for several months 

 in a satisfactory way. Suppose we had de- 

 clined the advertisement, would he not have 

 declared at once, publicly and privately, 

 that A. I. Root would not accept any ad- 

 vertisement that threatened to run against 

 his own business, or that offered things at 

 a lower rate than he did ? You know what 

 has been said about publishers and supply- 

 dealers, in this line. Since we are discuss- 

 ing this matter, perhaps it would do no 

 harm to speak quite plainly. When the Bee- 

 k€eper''s Magazine came out with a flaming 



